Hello guys,
My problem is as follows - i bought the components to my new PC just a few days ago, and ever since i bought them, i thought that my PC was a bit off when it comes to performance.
The rest of my PC :
FX 8320 (OC'ed to 4.2 GHZ) , (Occt "says" it's stable - peaking at 64 Degrees during the test, while peaking max 59 during gaming)
8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHZ (2x4 gb),
r9 280x MSI gaming ed. (max temp 78 degrees)
Mobo Asus m5a97 r2.0
Corsair VS650
CPU cooler - CM tx3 Hyper EVO
I have a 1680x1050 monitor, valley benchmark on ultra settings yield 2040 points, Watch Dogs with The Worse mod is anywhere between 29 to 50 fps (27-44 while driving) on ultra, Far Cry 3 drops to 39 fps (average in about 48) on ultra with 4MSAA, Guild Wars drops to 30-35 fps while outdoors when there's a few ppl..
I think this system is kinda undeperforming, am i right? Almost everyone on the youtube that i checked was getting better framerates..
But just today i noticed another thing - while watching youtube (not while playing games, strangely..) these horizontal lines appeared on my screen, flickering all over the place. Strangely enough, my second monitor that's plugged in stays perfectly unafected by this flickering. Card is OC'ed a bit (from 1020 MHz to 1080 on core, 1500 > 1570 memory), yet i didn't have these problems earlier.
Can you help me figuring out what is happening? Are those numbers and FPS all - right? Does the artifacts indicate that my GPU is bad?
Thanks for your time guys, i really appreciate all the help.
Peace
P.S i can't seem to upload the picture of the monitor - i'll just toss here a link, hope that isn't "Bad"
https://imageshack.com/i/id5ef94cj